{"id":5417,"date":"2020-05-28T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:44:50","slug":"sami-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/sami-people\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1mi People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/h2>\n

The S\u00e1mi people are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people<\/a> inhabiting S\u00e1pmi<\/a>, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden , Finland<\/a>, and the Kola Peninsula<\/a> within the Murmansk Oblast<\/a> of Russia<\/a>. The S\u00e1mi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders. S\u00e1mi ancestral lands are not well-defined. Their traditional languages are the S\u00e1mi languages which are classified as a branch of the Uralic<\/a> language family. The terms “Lapp” and “Lapland” are regarded as offensive by some Sami people, who prefer the area’s name in their own language, “S\u00e1pmi”.<\/p>\n

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Homeland of the S\u00e1mi People<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Traditionally, the S\u00e1mi have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping, and sheep herding. Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding.<\/p>\n

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S\u00e1mi Man from Norway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Currently about 10% of the S\u00e1mi are connected to reindeer herding, providing them with meat, fur, and transportation. 2,800 S\u00e1mi people are actively involved in reindeer herding on a full-time basis in Norway. For traditional, environmental, cultural, and political reasons, reindeer herding is legally reserved for only S\u00e1mi people in some regions of the Nordic countries. The vast majority of the S\u00e1mi are now urbanized and their traditional culture is under threat.<\/p>\n

The Flag of the S\u00e1mi People:<\/h2>\n

The Sami flag was inaugurated during the Sami Conference in \u00c5re<\/a>, Sweden<\/a>, on 15 August 1986. It was the result of a competition for which many suggestions were entered. The winning design was submitted by the artist Astrid B\u00e5hl<\/a> from Skibotn<\/a>, Norway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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S\u00e1mi People’s Flag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The motif was derived from the shaman’s drum and the poem “Paiven parneh” (“Sons of the Sun”) by the South Sami Anders Fjellner describing the Sami as sons and daughters of the sun. The flag has the Sami colours, red, green, yellow and blue, and the circle represents the sun (red) and the moon (blue).<\/p>\n

Additional Information:<\/h2>\n

More information about the S\u00e1mi people, including current news items, is available from the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs<\/a> based in Copenhagen, Denmark.\u00a0 An overview of S\u00e1mi history and culture can be found here, a resource<\/a> that includes many linkages for additional detailed information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sami flag was inaugurated during the Sami Conference in \u00c5re, Sweden, on 15 August 1986. It was the result of a competition for which many suggestions were entered. The winning design was submitted by the artist Astrid B\u00e5hl from Skibotn, Norway.<\/p>\n

The motif was derived from the shaman’s drum and the poem “Paiven parneh” (“Sons of the Sun”) by the South Sami Anders Fjellner describing the Sami as sons and daughters of the sun. The flag has the Sami colours, red, green, yellow and blue, and the circle represents the sun (red) and the moon (blue).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,5,7,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}